Summer Stock

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  • Summer Stock -- Pleasant musical comedy in which a farm girl (Judy Garland) reluctantly lets a theatrical troupe (headed by Gene Kelly) use her barn to put on a musical revue, then winds up the show's star. Directed by Charles Walters, there's not much plot but it's got plenty of music, notably Garland singing "Get Happy" and Kelly building a tap dance around a squeaky floor board and some newspaper pages, paced with intermittent comedy from the likes of Eddie Bracken, Phil Silvers and Marjorie Main. Enjoyable family fare. (A-I) (br) ( 1950 )




    Movies have been evaluated by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishop's Office for Film and Broadcasting according to artistic merit and moral suitability. The reviews include the USCCB rating, the Motion Picture Association of America rating, and a brief synopsis of the movie.

    The classifications are as follows:

    • A-I -- general patronage;
    • A-II -- adults and adolescents;
    • A-III -- adults;
    • A-IV**
    • L -- limited adult audience, films whose problematic content many adults would find troubling. L replaces the previous classification, A-IV.
    • O -- morally offensive.
    ** Discontinued classification. All archived movies that were originally in the A-IV category are now classified as L.
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